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Hamlet: Poem Unlimited by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £9.99£6.70In the bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom showed us how Shakespeare shaped human consciousness, and addressed the question of authorship in Hamlet. In Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, America's most celebrated critic turns his... -
But the Girl: ‘A wonderful new novel’ Brandon Taylor by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu 9781787333925
RRP: £16.99£12.28Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'GUARDIAN'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world'BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late... -
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon by Richard Fallon
RRP: £75.00£67.74When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries-including Brontosaurus and Triceratops-proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all... -
Summary and Analysis of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders: Based on the Book by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry by Worth Books 9781504046725
RRP: £8.99£4.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504046725Author Worth BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Eric Rasmussen 9780230217898
£8.72From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of A Midsummer Night's Dream in performance, takes... -
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy by Shirazi Hafiz
RRP: £32.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037811Author Shirazi HafizFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Books India Pvt LtdPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: £12.99£9.09Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99£8.53Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from Britain's leading psychoanalyst.For Adam Phillips - as for... -
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: a Biography by Ruvani Ranasinha
RRP: £30.00£22.31Original, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of... -
The Love Poems Of Rumi by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood... -
Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Professor Akinari Ueda 9780231139137
RRP: £22.00£17.36First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Various
RRP: £20.00£14.29This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group by Victoria Rosner
RRP: £23.99£19.99Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: £12.99£9.70Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet, which makes... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser by Andrew Hadfield 9780521645706
RRP: £32.99£28.38The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important... -
Heroicus. Gymnasticus. Discourses 1 and 2: Discourses 1 and 2 by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.39How to cultivate Greek heroes and athletes.In the writings of Philostratus (ca. AD 170-ca. 250), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century AD reached its height. His Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Lives of the Sophists, and Imagines... -
Too Much by Rachel Vorona Cote
RRP: £20.00£14.29Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: £20.00£15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Selected Poems by Sharon Olds
RRP: £15.00£10.96Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by... -
The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court by Jayne Elisabeth Archer 9780719090097
RRP: £25.00£22.19This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late... -
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99£8.56Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Ryan Moore
RRP: £6.50£6.11Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United... -
Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Susan Ratcliffe
RRP: £12.99£9.09This updated edition is the perfect gift for every occasion. From Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Albert Einstein and Kate Moss, this dictionary features 4,000 of the best and most popular quotations of past and present. Packed with quotable quotes on over... -
Blake's Poetry and Designs by William Blake
£23.25In addition to a broad selection of the poems, the volume includes over 100 images (16 in color), emphasizing the centrality of pictorial representations to Blake's verse. Biographical context is provided through dozens of excerpts from Blake's notebook,... -
De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella
RRP: £24.95£23.39A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service... -
My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame by Dave McKean 9781910691175
RRP: £10.00£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910691175Author Dave McKeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tangerine PressPublisher Tangerine Press -
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: £36.95£32.91From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and... -
A Companion to Goethe`s Faust - Parts I and II by Paul Bishop
RRP: £32.99£29.23Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work. Undisputedly a canonical work, Goethe's Faust is also the key to understanding its author, one of European civilization's most complex figures. Written over several decades, the work... -
Modernism: An Anthology by Lawrence Rainey 9780631204497
RRP: £39.95£36.64Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore,... -
Massacre of Glencoe by John Buchan 9781852171643
RRP: £6.99£3.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171643Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
Unprocessed 10th Anniversary Edition: Revitalize Your Health with Whole Foods by Chef A.J. 9781570674082
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570674082Author Chef A.J.Format PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Book Publishing Company -
The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden by Roy Strong
RRP: £14.95£9.78Shakespeare's potent use of garden imagery has captivated successive generations of readers and inspired the making of gardens across the globe. Laced with quotations and abounding with illustrations drawn from sources including Elizabethan gardening... -
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: £8.99£6.61In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe... -
Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body-language of Politics by Max Atkinson
RRP: £35.99£31.69`Max Atkinson presents a neat blend of applied political psychology and communications theory that is bound to be read closely in the corridors of power. His study of the art of effective political persuasion will revolutionize - for the better -... -
Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £18.99£16.18One of Europe's greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe's greatest poets, Friedrich Hoelderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn't living... -
Essays by Lydia Davis
RRP: £20.00£14.69From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my... -
Pride and Prejudice: York Notes for AS & A2 by Laura Gray
RRP: £7.99£7.02THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Roman History, Volume I by Appian
RRP: £24.95£23.39Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
Student Guide to Thomas Hardy by Sean Haldane 9781871551334
RRP: £11.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551334Author Sean HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd